Download or read book The Amish Woman and Her Last Hope written by Samantha Price and published by Purple Palm Press. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Their Surprise Amish Marriage written by Jocelyn McClay and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Might her new husband be this reluctant bride’s perfect match? No one in their Amish community thought Rachel Mast would end up with Ben Raber—least of all Rachel! Everyone assumed she’d start a family with his brother, until he broke her heart by leaving the community. Now Rachel’s unexpectedly pregnant and married to a hardworking husband who feels like a stranger. It's not the marriage she hoped for…but can they turn this rocky beginning into a happy ending? From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.

Download or read book The Amish Cowboy An Amish reunion romance written by Adina Senft and published by Moonshell Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Amish cowboy’s unexpected reunion with the woman who got away could heal his heart … or break it forever. Daniel is the eldest of the six Miller siblings helping their Old Older Amish parents run the Circle M Ranch in northwestern Montana. Daniel can handle a blizzard, manage a roundup, even birth a calf. But what he can’t do is forget Lovina Lapp, who broke his heart back in Lancaster County and married someone else. When their neighbors gather to help them bring the cattle down from the summer pastures, Daniel is staggered to see Lovina among them. His job is to keep the group safe in the high country. But will he be able to protect his heart? After a chaotic childhood and a romance with Daniel Miller that ended when he chose Montana over her, Lovina learned the danger of loving a cowboy. She married another man instead—someone who was safe. But after God took her husband in a freak accident, an invitation to go with old friends to visit the national parks seems like a gift. Until she finds herself unexpectedly at the Circle M Ranch, where one look at Daniel tells her there is nothing safe about her feelings for him … The Montana Millers. They believe in faith, family, and the land. They’ll need all three when love comes to the Circle M! The Amish Cowboy is the first novel in the Amish Cowboys of Montana romance series. Though the books that follow can be read as standalones, there is a family thread running through them all. No strong language, just a loving kiss and a guaranteed happily ever after. If you like books by Samantha Price, Amy Lillard, or Grace Lewis, you’re in the right place. Enjoy!

Download or read book Thrill of the Chaste written by Valerie Weaver-Zercher and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaver-Zercher blends academic analysis with her own experiences of researching, reading, and talking with others about Amish fiction in order to explore the phenomenon, with particular attention to the hypermodernity and hypersexuality that are fueling the appeal of the genre for evangelical Christian readers.

Download or read book An Amish Flower Farm written by Mindy Steele and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She grows flowers. He raises bees for honey. They help each other out, because that’s what neighbors do… Belinda Graber loves growing flowers for her family to sell at the Amish marketplace. Venturing beyond the farm to sell them in town, though, is out of the question. People would stare at the birthmark on her cheek, and she’s dealt with enough teasing in her life. As a beekeeper, Adam Fisher knows how blessed he is to live next door to the Grabers’ greenhouses and fields. But when his father is injured, Adam has to take a job at the local mill. How will he manage the honey harvest? Adam and Belinda make a deal: if she tends his hives, he’ll sell her flowers in town. Belinda’s sure that her growing feelings for Adam could never be returned. Meanwhile, Adam can’t help but notice how his shy neighbor charms the bees…or is he the one being charmed? Because his last courtship ended badly, Adam tells himself this arrangement is strictly business, even if Belinda is sweet as honey. This uplifting Amish romance includes a free Hallmark original recipe for Bee Sting Cake For Two.

Download or read book Ties That Bind written by Cindy Woodsmall and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ariana’s comfortable Old Order Amish world is about to unravel. Will holding tightly to the cords of family keep them together—or simply tear them apart? Twenty-year-old Ariana Brenneman loves her family and the Old Ways. She has two aspirations: open a café in historic Summer Grove to help support her family’s ever-expanding brood and to keep any other Amish from being lured into the Englisch life by Quill Schlabach. Five years ago Quill, along with her dear friend Frieda, ran off together, and Ariana still carries the wounds of that betrayal. When she unexpectedly encounters him, she soon realizes he has plans to help someone else she loves leave the Amish. * Despite how things look, Quill’s goal has always been to protect Ariana from anything that may hurt her, including the reasons he left. After returning to Summer Grove on another matter, he unearths secrets about Ariana and her family that she is unaware of. His love and loyalty to her beckons him to try to win her trust and help her find a way to buy the café—because when she learns the truth that connects her and a stranger named Skylar Nash, Quill knows it may upend her life forever. Ties That Bind is the first novel in the Amish of Summer Grove series.

Download or read book His Love Endures Forever written by Beth Wiseman and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unplanned pregnancy. An absent father. Can love really endure all things? Danielle Kent is anything but Amish. But as destiny would have it, she has fallen in love with an Amish man. Now she’s 18, pregnant, and hopeful that the child’s Amish father—Matthew Lapp—will do the right thing and marry her. She knows Matthew plans to leave his Colorado settlement for a life in the Englisch world. But that plan never included a baby. When Matthew walks away from her and their unborn child, she has nowhere to turn. Her unlikely friendship with Levi offers some comfort—yet they have so little in common. This wasn’t the plan she had for her life, and she has never felt so alone. She doesn’t want to be pregnant. Doesn’t want to be Amish. Doesn’t want to trust God. And yet. God has plans beyond what her mind can imagine . . . loving plans to show a lost young woman that His love never fails but endures forever. “Wiseman is among the best at writing moving Amish fiction.” —Booklist review of The Wonder of His Love

Download or read book Amish Rose written by Samantha Price and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that Nancy Yoder's sons have both married, she turns her attention to Rose, the oldest of her four daughters. Rose is nearly twenty and, in Nancy's opinion, it's high time she began to look for a husband. Rose is caught off guard by her mother's desire that she should marry and marry fast. She tells her mother that love will find her when its ready. Soon after their discussion, Rose meets Jacob, the man of her dreams, and the two become close. When Rose learns some scandalous news about Jacob, she is devastated and turns to her good friend, Mark. Is Mark the man she should be with, or should she give Jacob another chance? Other books in the Amish Love Blooms series: Book 2 Amish Tulip Book 3 Amish Daisy Book 4 Amish Lily Book 5 Amish Violet Book 6 Amish Willow All Samantha Price books are clean and wholesome reads.

Download or read book Crazy Love written by Francis Chan and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised & Updated Edition! God is love. Crazy, relentless, all-powerful love. Have you ever wondered if we're missing it? It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe—the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor—loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss. Whether you've verbalized it yet or not, we all know something's wrong. Does something deep inside your heart long to break free from the status quo? Are you hungry for an authentic faith that addresses the problems of our world with tangible, even radical, solutions? God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. Because the answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts—it's falling in love with God. And once you encounter His love, as Francis describes it, you will never be the same. Because when you're wildly in love with someone, it changes everything. Learn more about Crazy Love at www.crazylovebook.com.

Download or read book For Every Season written by Cindy Woodsmall and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working hard to develop a new Amish community outside of Unity, Maine, Rhoda Byler is fully committed to rehabilitating an orchard with business partner Samuel King. But an impulsive decision has created an unexpected strain in her relationship with her beau, Samuel’s brother, Jacob, threatening plans for the orchard. Amidst mounting tension in matters of the heart and business, Rhoda finds that this fledging settlement feels like the home she has always longed for, and she begins to embrace the God-given, heightened intuition that has always felt like a burden to her. She longs for Jacob to fully be free of his past, so they can work towards the future together. But as Rhoda uses her gift to unpack an old secret with her Englisch neighbors, it is not her beau but an unlikely ally that cheers her on. With the orchard on shaky ground and Jacob’s plans in question, Rhoda is determined to see things through to harvest. But can she trust her insight to direct her path in matters of the heart?

Download or read book A Perfect Amish Romance written by Shelley Shepard Gray and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in this “book lover’s dream” (Carla Laureano, author of Under Scottish Stars) series from the New York Times bestselling author of The Loyal One follows a bookmobile driver-turned-matchmaker as she discovers that her Amish patrons need a whole lot more than just something to read. Aaron Coblentz has a secret: he’s been studying to take the GED. But he can’t let his Amish family know, not when his older brother already left the faith just a year after getting baptized, practically crippling the family. When Aaron asks bookmobile librarian Sarah Anne Miller for some additional study guides, she does one better. She arranges for Kayla Kaufman to be his tutor. Kayla has a secret, too. Her life has been turned upside down in a matter of months—her mother’s death propelled her father into a constant state of depression, and unable to deal with his erratic behavior, her longtime boyfriend has broken things off. But despite losing those she holds most dear, she hasn’t completely given up on love. Only now she seeks to find it in the sweet romance novels she checks out from Sarah Anne’s bookmobile. As Aaron and Kayla’s study sessions start to feel less like work and more like pleasure, they soon “discover the true magic of unexpected love” (Woman’s World).

Download or read book A Love Undone written by Cindy Woodsmall and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A husband and son abandoned to forge a path alone. A young woman who sacrificed her dreams. How will the God of grace and hope help them find their way? At nineteen years old, Old Order Amish Jolene Keim was on the brink of happily-ever-after when everything changed, stealing the future she expected and burdening her with an unbearable decision. For the next ten years, Jolene throws herself into family life—and then she meets Andy Fisher. The horse trainer and father to a sweet nine year-old challenges her and holds up a mirror to issues Jolene has been unwilling to face. Andy is cautious about his deepening friendship with Jolene, but he believes she knows the truth about him – that he is a grass widower. As a man whose wife has abandoned him six years past, he is unable to divorce or remarry according to the Amish ways. Andy has wrestled with God concerning his reality, and he had found peace with the solitary future facing him…until he met Jolene. As Andy and Jolene find themselves confronted by difficult choices, will they trust in God's guidance—or will the allure of their deepening friendship only lead to further temptation?

Download or read book The Amish Cowboy s Baby An Amish secret baby romance written by Adina Senft and published by Moonshell Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lonely prodigal, an Amish cowboy rebel, a secret baby. A recipe for disaster ... or for unexpected love? Joshua Miller is the youngest in the Miller family—and the one most likely to break his mother’s heart. The minute he can sneak away, he’s out with his Englisch friends, planning when he’ll jump the fence and leave the Amish church. It’s all good times and bad choices ... until the day he finds a baby at the door with a note saying the child is his. Sara Fischer once thought the grass was greener on the other side, only to discover that coming back to the church can be harder than leaving it. Now she’s returned to Montana ranch country, where the only job she can find is on the Circle M ranch—as a nanny to a cowboy's secret baby. She may not be very good with babies, but she knows a hurting man when she sees one—and she responds to Joshua in a way she never has with anyone else. The Amish way of life is the fence that divides them. But can a baby’s trusting smile be the key that opens their hearts to each other—and to God? "This story has all that Adina Senft is known to bring to her writing. Complex Amish characters. Family values. Being lost and found in the redemptive Spirit of God. Settle back for an exciting ride!" --GoodReads The Montana Millers. They believe in faith, family, and the land. They’ll need all three when love comes to the Circle M! The Amish Cowboy’s Baby is the second novel in the Amish Cowboys of Montana romance series. Though the books can be read as standalones, there is a family thread running through them all. No strong language, just a loving kiss and a guaranteed happily ever after. If you like books by Hannah Miller, Naomi Troyer, or Hannah Schrock, you’re in the right place. Enjoy!

Download or read book An Amish Mother for His Twins written by Patricia Davids and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’s a reminder of his past… Could she be the key to his future? Amish widow Maisie Schrock is determined to care for her newborn niece and nephew, and no one will stand in her way—not even their father. But Nathan Weaver refuses to accept help from the identical sister of his late wife, who abandoned him. Before the next bus home leaves, can Maisie convince Nathan she’s the ideal guardian for the twins…and his wounded heart? A NORTH COUNTRY AMISH STORY He’s not looking for her help…in this novel from USA TODAY bestselling author Patricia Davids From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope. North Country Amish Book 1: Shelter from the Storm Book 2: The Amish Teacher's Dilemma Book 3: A Haven for Christmas Book 4: Someone to Trust Book 5: An Amish Mother for His Twins

Download or read book Missing Your Smile written by Jerry S. Eicher and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will delight in this heartfelt novel by bestselling author Jerry Eicher, a former Amishman, who writes with authenticity and compassion about the people he grew up with. When Susan Hostetler has a falling out with her boyfriend, Thomas Stoll, she leaves her Amish community and moves to Asbury Park to experiment in English life. There she learns to drive a car, takes her GED test, and falls in love with young and handsome Duane Bower. Back home, her parents are devastated and miss their daughter terribly. But what can they do? Susan has a mind of her own. Just as Susan is enjoying her new life, her plans are interrupted. She meets Teresa Long, a young, unwed, expectant mother who asks Susan to help her have her baby adopted by an Amish family. As Susan is drawn into the young woman's life, she also finds herself drawn back to her Amish roots. But can she truly leave her life behind...and Duane?

Download or read book Someone to Trust written by Patricia Davids and published by Love Inspired Heartsong Presents. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some connections go beyond words...in this novel by USA TODAY bestselling author Patricia Davids. On an Amish matchmaking trip, can she avoid falling in love? Esther Burkholder has no interest in her stepmother's matchmaking when her family visits an Amish community in Maine. Deaf from a young age, she's positive a hearing man couldn't understand the joys and trials of living in a silent world. But Gabe Fischer is certainly handsome, hardworking and brave. More importantly, he sees the real Esther. Might this Amish bachelor be her unexpected perfect match? From Harlequin Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope. North Country Amish Book 1: Shelter from the Storm Book 2: The Amish Teacher's Dilemma Book 3: A Haven for Christmas Book 4: Someone to Trust

Download or read book Seek Me with All Your Heart written by Beth Wiseman and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2010-10-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would cause the Amish to move to Colorado, leaving family and friends behind? Some Amish are making the trek to Colorado for cheaper land. Others are fleeing strict bishops with long memories. For Emily Detweiler and her family, the move is more personal. Tragedy struck Emily in Ohio, shaking loose everything she believed was firm, including her faith. Her family took the bold step of leaving Ohio to resettle in a small Amish community in Canaan, Colorado, where they hope the distance will help erase painful memories. David Stoltzfus's family moved to Colorado for reasons he doesn't understand. But Canaan is turning out to be something other than the promised land they all anticipated. Fearing that a health condition will cut his life short, David plans to return home to Paradise, Pennsylvania, as soon as he can. But then he meets Emily, who stirs feelings in his heart despite his apprehension about the future. Emily's growing love for David surprises her, but she fears that he will find out the truth about her past and reject her. But what if the truth is that they are made for each other? And that God longs to give them the desires of their hearts if only they will seek Him first?